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> > Others have called it a plague.
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/barracuda_failure_plague/
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> It is a plague. Seagate can say whatever they like, from my experiences
> and what I've been able to piece together, the failure rate is
> perilously close to 100% for these drives.

Before I moved to the UK, the company I worked for supplied drive cabinets =
that hooked up to Burroughs mainframes, and contained several strings of Se=
agate drives connected using differential SCSI. They had a special version =
of software in them to handle the 180 byte sector format that Burroughs use=
d. With monotonous regularity we would have a drive failure that would lock=
 up the mainframe until we unplugged the failing drive (they were designed =
as hot-swappable arrays).

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